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Officer: Suspect is down. Suspect had a gun.
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I once responded with "honestly no but I mustn't have have be doing the speed limit or we wouldn't be here". It got a laugh and I was let off with a warning. For the record, I'm a white guy with a mustache. Cops love mustaches
It's easier for them if you incriminate yourself.
"yes, I do, if you can tell me how fast you think I was going I'll happily corroborate whether your information is correct or not".
Only if you knew you weren't speeding and/or have a dashcam that records your speed.
but i know where I am.
No, it is definitely the driver’s job to keep an eye on how fast they’re going.
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Answering this question makes it easy for the cop to write it in his report that you admitted guilt.
I know someone who said he has no idea what his speed was. When the cop was pressing harder and harder to get him to accept he asked "do you have a calibrated speed gun in your car". The cop admitted he didn't and the guy said "this conversation is over then", and the cop let him drive off.
In my youth (look, this was like a decade ago, I don't speed much these days), I had a nice car with superb high-speed stability and a big engine (by my standards at the time anyway). It was a super beautiful spring evening, I'd just put on my grippy summer tires and the road was damn near empty. So I was cruising at 120 km/h and decided to overtake a bus going 90. Well it wasn't very difficult to go from 120 to 180 in just a few seconds and then I coasted back to a more sane speed fairly quickly.
So when I got pulled over and the cop asked me if I knew how fast I was going, I said "I don't know the exact number, I was looking at the road not the speedometer, could you tell me?" and was told they caught me at 120 km/h. Nearly sighed out in relief at that point.
Someone else posted these recently. Always a good reminder:
They get posted in nearly every one of these discussions.
As they should!
I felt like I was being a giant asshole but I got off the same way. Cop was trying to make me admit to driving fast. I said I wasn’t and asked what they clocked me at. They said they didn’t get me with the radar gun. I said “ok,” and just stared at her.
One time a cop lied that he caught be going 94 in a 65. I said “I was not going 94. I’ve never gone 94 in my life.” And he said “Are you saying that wasn’t you?” “I don’t know what you recorded but I wasn’t going 94.” So he goes and sits in his car for a while pretending to check his tapes, then comes back and says “You are definitely the one I recorded.” Conveniently ignoring what I actually said.
Eventually he dropped the speed he was claiming down to like 70 and my dumbass then-21 year old self was like “Oh OK, yeah I was totally going 70, just not 94.” and he handed me a ticket.
I’m still mad about it.
I think that the way to settle a dispute like this isn't by shouting over the cop. Is it satisfying? I'm sure. Good idea? Never.
It's on them to prove the speeding happened, and if they can't back it up in court, it's a quick dismiss.
"Hi officer, I think I was doing about -"
The only good answer is "to my knowledge I was driving within the limit".
If you say "yes" and were speeding you've just admitted you knew you were speeding, if you say "no" you've just admitted you weren't keeping track of your speed.
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Am I the only person around here who uses cruise control? Like all the time. Set it for 5 over, and I'm good. With adaptive cruise control, it will even slow you down when the guy in front is going slower.
My problem with ACC is that it makes traffic worse. A competent driver can look 500 feet up the road and think "oh, brake lights, I can literally just coast down and we'll be going the same speed when they start moving again." But ACC only looks at the car in front of you, so you get this constant accelerate and brake cycle that ripples backwards. Like on open road its fine, as long as you keep the following distance at a reasonable level, but I swear every asshole with a late model SUV keeps theirs set on tailgate mode, and it means any slowdown turns into stop and go
Edit: also cc is hella inefficient and will chew up a good 10% of your fuel economy on hilly terrain. If you set and forget it's basically an "I would like to pay more money to the oil company please" button
I remember once seeing a test where about two dozen drivers were asked to drive in a large circle. All it takes is one or two brakes in order to have this big accordion effect going through the whole thing.
Not in a hybrid with Hill Descent Control. That's just more juice in the battery.
That's cheating :P
It's the future!
I don't know if that's universal for ACC, mine will gradually slow down with traffic as long as I don't have the follow distance set to the minimum. The only times it hard brakes is when someone cuts me off or if the car(s) ahead slam on their brakes, but even in that case it will try to slow down as gradually as it can while eating up that gap.
Also, on hilly terrain it will allow a fair deviation from the set speed before it will try to accelerate/brake more aggressively (usually +/- 5-10 km/h).
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You can just look at him and not answer.
You need to give them license, registration, and proof of insurance, and otherwise comply, but you don't need to talk to them.
And, it just occurred to me, as an old man, if I could somehow cry it might just make the cop uncomfortable enough to let me go. LOL.
Sob, "Ever since Marie died I've had nobody to tell me how fast I'm driving while I keep my eyes on the road. It's like I'm missing half my soul..."
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